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Sylva sylvarvm; or, A naturall historie, in ten centuries

by: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667; Whitfeld, William (autograph); Langford, Emanuel (autograph); Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1775-1851 (bookplate); Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869 (bookplate); Spedding, James, 1808-1881 (autograph)

Publication date: 1628

Topics: Natural history

Publisher: The 2d ed

Collection: thomasfisher; biodiversity; toronto

Digitizing sponsor: University of Toronto

Contributor: Fisher - University of Toronto

Language: English

Added engr. t.p. dated 1629

With, as issued, the author's New Atlantis. English. 1628

Gibson 172

S.T.C. 1170

RBSC copy 1: Portrait wanting. With two bookplates of the Earls of Derby (Edward Smith Stanley the 13th Earl, and Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, the 14th Earl [Franks 27891]?). Ex libris James Spedding, with notes in MS. bound in at end

RBSC copy 2: Pages 55-56 wanting; duplicate p. 43-54 bound in their place. With the autographs of William Whitfeld 1683; of Emanuel Langford 1684 (front flyleaf). With two bookplates of the Earls of Derby (Edward Smith Stanley the 13th Earl, and Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, the 14th Earl [Franks 27891]?). Ex libris James Spedding, with some notes in MS

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